For four days, the art and music space Reitschule in Bern turned into a center of the world: The 8th Norient Musikfilm Festival was an aesthetic journey through the politics of the body, mind and soul – a review in words, pictures and tweets.

The development of a «Luso world music», a transnational musical movement that brings together popular and traditional musics of the Portuguese-speaking world and departing mainly from the city of Lisbon.

There is a lot more than samba drums: A journey through current sounds and different cities in Brazil. A trip between kitchy electromelodia sounds, cumbia shaped tracks and afro-brazilian rooted bass music.

One Month before FIFA World Cup starts one can everywhere read about the «pacification» of Rio’s favelas. A short documentary from Bruno Muniz shows us, how the baile funk culture is affected by this policy.

Re-Sounding Space For a New Rio de Janeiro. // As an anthropologist and urban planning researcher with specialties in music and sound, we have combined our backgrounds to examine the politics of reconstructing soundscapes in Rio de Janeiro.

This article explores the role of Kuduro, the popular Angolan electronic music and dance style in the process of updating the national Angolan identity called angolanidade to the conditions of the new millennium.

With their CD «Proibidão C.V.: Forbidden Gang Funk from Rio de Janeiro» the US-American Label Sublime Frequencies aims to portrait a moment in time in Brazil. Gregory Scruggs however criticises them as uniformed explorers.